Meridel Le Sueur at fifteen had an introduction to one interpretation of free love herself, when attending a salon held by Mabel Dodge, a rich patron of radicals. (Emma was good at getting rich women to give money.) At Meridel's first salon, Theodore Dreiser spent the entire evening I was fifteen years old!-chasing me around the library. Meridel had read Dreiser's banned book, Sister Carrie. He kept saying, don't you know who I am? and I said, yes, I thought you were the greatest author in the country but I didn't know you were a satyr!
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Theodore Dreiser was a 19th-century American novelist and journalist. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Read more on Wikipedia →